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Practical Data Analysis - Second Edition

By : Hector Cuesta, Dr. Sampath Kumar
Book Image

Practical Data Analysis - Second Edition

By: Hector Cuesta, Dr. Sampath Kumar

Overview of this book

Beyond buzzwords like Big Data or Data Science, there are a great opportunities to innovate in many businesses using data analysis to get data-driven products. Data analysis involves asking many questions about data in order to discover insights and generate value for a product or a service. This book explains the basic data algorithms without the theoretical jargon, and you’ll get hands-on turning data into insights using machine learning techniques. We will perform data-driven innovation processing for several types of data such as text, Images, social network graphs, documents, and time series, showing you how to implement large data processing with MongoDB and Apache Spark.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Practical Data Analysis - Second Edition
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Preface

Working with web-based visualization


A data journalist and information designer David McCandless stated in his TED talk:

"By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you're lost in information, an information map is kind of useful."

The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information space, which publishes and displays information via the Internet. The accessibility of information through online information services and the WWW is increasing day by day. A vast amount of information is available on websites, which can be accessed through the Internet. But the user may find the information difficult to read, and hence spends a lot of time on the web. Therefore, on websites, the information should be user friendly and reading through it should not take too much time.

Most people prefer pictures over text, so the use of graphical representation of information is increasing daily, leading us to an understanding of how...